Joe Brown

Singer and guitarist Joe Brown joins Johnnie to remember life on the road in the 70s.

Described by the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums as a "chirpy Cockney", Joe Brown was one of the original artists managed by the early rock impresario and manager Larry Parnes. He is highly regarded in the music business as a musician's musician. Joe Brown joined his first band, the Spacemen Skiffle Group, at the age of 17. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and has been a UK recording star since the early 1960s. In the early Seventies he formed Brown’s Home Brew which included his late wife Vicki and Joe Fagin. They released two acclaimed albums and toured the UK twice. In the intervening decades, Joe has toured regularly, playing up to 200 shows a year.

Also on the show, Johnnie adds another classic 7" to Johnnie's Jukebox and hears all the stories from This Week In Music.